Advance Australia launched earlier this week, the new group have been dubbed the conservative answer to GetUp! The new lobby groups promises to promote conservative viewpoints and target marginal electorates in upcoming elections.
The group have announced that one of their focus areas for campaigning will be against the acceptance of “gender fluidity”.
The first signs of the launch of the new group were in a column published by News Corp’s Miranda Devine over the weekend. Devine announced that group would be launching a campaign called “Binary” to tackle what she described as a “epidemic” of transgender youth.
Devine’s article focussed a the number of young people in Western Australia who have sought help for gender dysphoria.
Advance Australia’s newly appointed Executive Director Gerard Benedet (pictured) outlined the groups key priorities in an opinion piece published in the News Corp owned publication The Australian.
Alongside championing freedom of speech, improving the economy and fighting for common sense, Benedet said the organisation was opposed to “radical gender theories.”
“Political correctness is everywhere we turn and little kids are being taught radical gender theories, undermining family values.” he wrote.
